Literature for Teens
Lit for Teens will meet on Mondays 4:00-5:00 EST during the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
Fall Semester: August 31, 2020-- November 23, 2020
Literature Guides will be provided by the instructor for most selections. These emphasize vocabulary, reading comprehension, plot, character development, and common literary devices. Students will be required to read from a specific edition for most selections. The course materials fee for Lit for Teens reimburses the instructors for the cost of the instructor's copy of each selection, for the student and instructor literature guides, and for other teaching materials and consumables used by the Lit for Teens instructors.
Students are welcome to grade their assignments as we go over them each week in class; however, official grades will not be given. Feedback will be given on any writing/creative assignments collected by the instructor. Literature is only one component of a complete high school level English course. Parents will want to use Lit for Teens along with grammar/rhetoric, writing, and vocabulary/spelling, to determine their teen's English grade for the official high school homeschool transcript, when needed.
Fall Semester: August 31, 2020-- November 23, 2020
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Gilgamesh the Hero
- The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Great Speeches (teen led)
Literature Guides will be provided by the instructor for most selections. These emphasize vocabulary, reading comprehension, plot, character development, and common literary devices. Students will be required to read from a specific edition for most selections. The course materials fee for Lit for Teens reimburses the instructors for the cost of the instructor's copy of each selection, for the student and instructor literature guides, and for other teaching materials and consumables used by the Lit for Teens instructors.
Students are welcome to grade their assignments as we go over them each week in class; however, official grades will not be given. Feedback will be given on any writing/creative assignments collected by the instructor. Literature is only one component of a complete high school level English course. Parents will want to use Lit for Teens along with grammar/rhetoric, writing, and vocabulary/spelling, to determine their teen's English grade for the official high school homeschool transcript, when needed.